Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-21

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sane asylum.
son." says some Christian man, "nc
one ought to allow physical disorder tC
depress his soul. He ought to live sc
near to God as to be always in the sun
shine" Yes, that is good advice; but
warrant that you, the man who gives the
advice, has sound liver. Thank Goo
every day for heaIthful hepstic condition
for, just as certainly as you lose it, you
will sometime, like David, and like Jere-
mish, and like CoWper, and like Alexan-
der Cruden, and like ten thousand other
inValids, be playing Dead March on the
organ with which now you play Toe
cats. My object at this point is not only
to emolliate the criticisms of the well
against those in poor health, but to show
! Christian people who are atra-bilsrious
what is the matter with them. Do not
charge against the heart the crimes OF
another portion OF your organism. Do
not conclude that because the path OF
heaven is not srbored with as fine foil
age, or the banks beautifully showed IN
der with exquisite chryssnthemums as
once, that therefore you are on the wrong
road. The road will bring you out at
THE SAME GATE
whether you walk with the stride of an
athlete or come up on crutches. Thous-
] ands Of Christians morbid about their
/ experiences and morbid aoout their bust
ness, and morbid about the present, and
morbid about the future, need the sermon
am now preaching. ~
Another practical use of this subject is
for the young. The theory is abroad that
they must first SOW their wild oats, and
afterwards Michigan wheat. Let me
break the delusion. Wild oats are gener-
ely soRn in the liver, and they can never
be pulled up. They so preoccupy that
organ that there is no room for the i'm
plantation of righteous crop. You see
aged men about Us at eighty.
erect, agile, splendid, grand old
men. How much wild oats
did they sow between eighteen years and
thirty? None, absolutely none. God
does not very often honor with old age
those who have in eafly life sacrificed
swine on the altar of the bodily temple.
Remember, o young man, that while in
after life, and after years of dissipation,
you may perhaps have your heart changed,
religion does not change the liver. Trem-
bling and staggering along these streets
prematurely old for The reason that they
are paging for liens they put upon their
physical estate before they were thirty.
By early dissipation they put on their body
FIRST MORTGAGE,
q second mortgage, and third mortgage
to the devil, ana these mortgages are now
being ioreclosed, and all that remains OF
their earthly estate the under
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years ago, in fluff lment Of my text, 8 dart
struck through their liver, and it is there
yet. God forgives, but outraged physi-
Cal law never, never, never. That has O
Sinai, but no Calvary. Solomon in my
text knew what he was talking about. He
had in early life been prof gate, and be
rises up on his throne Of worldly splendor
TO shrek out warning 20 all the centu-
ries. David, bad in eSFlY life, but good
in later life, cries out with an agony Of
esrnestness: "Remember not the sins Of
my youth"
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name of
"squatter sovereignty" to those who
went out west and took possession of
lands 6nd held them by right of preoccu-
patton. Let flock Of sins settle On your
heart before you get TO twenty five years
of age and they will in all probability
keep possession of it by an Internal squat
Ter sovereignty. "I promise to psy ct
the bank $500 six months from date"
says the promissory note. 81 promise to
pay my life thirty years from date at the
bank of the grave" says every lnfraction
of the laws Of your physical being.
What! viii mans body never COM
pletely recover from early dissipation in
this world? Never. How about the
world to come? Perhaps God will fix it
up in the resurrection body SO that it
will not have to go limping through all
eternity, but get the liver thoroughly
damaged and it Will stay damaged. Phys
iclans call it cancer of the liver or harden
ing of the liver or cirrhosis of the liver
or Inflammation CT the liver or fatty de-
generation of the yer, but Solomon
puts ell these pangs into one figure end
says: "Till the dart strike through his
liver"
Hesiod seemed TO have some hint of
this when he represented Prometheus for
his crimes fastened to pillar and an
eagle
FEEDING ON HIS LIVER,
which was renewed each night, so that
the devouring went on until finally Her
cules slew the eagle and rescued trome-
theus. And dissipated esriy life u.s.
sures a ferocity pecking away and
clsWing away at the liver year
in and year out, and death Is
the only Hercules who can break the
power OF its he8k or unclepch its claw.
So also Virgil and Homer wrote fables
about vultures preyiDg upon the liver, but
there are those here to-day with whom it
is no fable, but a terrible reality.
That young man smoking cigarettes
and smoking cigars has no idea that he is
getting for himself smoked liver. That
young man has No idea that ne has by
early dissipation so depleted his energies
that he will go into the battle only half
armed. Napoleon lost Waterloo days
before il was fought Had he attacked
the English army before 1t wes
reinforced, and taken it division by
division, he might have won the day, but
he waited until he had only 100, 600
men against 200 900 And here is young
man who, If he put ell his forces against
the regiment of youthful temptations, in
the strength of God might drive them
back, but he is allowing them to be REIN
forced by the whole army of mid-life
temptations, and when all these
combined forces are massed against
him and no Grouchy comes to help him,
and Butcher has come to help his foes,